Now that Ben is able to wander longer distances without having one of us carry him we have introduced him to hiking. Our first outing was to the meadows along the Mount Rose highway a couple of weeks ago. He loved wandering along the seasonal creek looking for little fish and finding big rocks to climb and jump from. And the entire time he had to have a stick in his hands for banging on stumps and the like.
Just this last weekend we took another outing to the gondola at the Northstar ski resort near Truckee. In the summer they run the gondola and chair lifts for serious mountain bikers (not us) and for hikers (definitely more our speed). It's free to hikers and a fun way to spend a few hours. Unfortunately, the visibility was pretty poor with forest fires burning in California but we enjoyed the time with my parents anyway. We plan on going again since they run through the month of October for bikers/hikers. Brian gave Ben his very own hiking pole for this hike.
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